The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Press Conference in Chile Gives Obama Chance to Lie in Two Languages

Our Commander-in-Chief’s eloquent insincerity was matched only by his insincere eloquence in a press conference that just ended in Santiago, Chile. I live-Tweeted it, so let me check my notes . . . Yeah. “Complete bullshit,” it says here. “Diplomatic argle-bargle. Political yadda-yadda.” At one point, Obama was just banging out the domestic-politics buzzwords — “jobs,” […]

The Triumph of Raaaaacism: Liberals Get in Touch With Their Inner Teabagger

First it was Michael Moore and now they’re all piling on. Ralph Nader says Obama should be impeached for war crimes, Josh Marshall says the president’s Libya policy is “a mess, poorly conceived, ginned up by folks with their own weird agendas,” and Andrew Sullivan . . . Well, frankly, I’m beginning to feel a […]

About The Only Unused Obama Comparison Remaining: Elric

by Smitty American Power has a jaunty image of a smiling BHO getting his sports on. The post title mentions ‘a disinterested and semi-retired American superpower’. Now that BHO has his Very Own War, though the notion of the Tomahawk missile as Stormbringer and BHO as Elric of Melniboné comes to mind. From Wikipedia: Elric […]

‘Any Similarity Is Coincidence’

A suspicious similarity between Obama’s speech announcing U.S. strikes against Libya and George W. Bush’s speech announcing the Afghanistan invasion: “The senior White House official said ‘any similarity is coincidence,’ adding that neither Obama nor his speechwriters reviewed Bush’s remarks from Oct. 7, 2001.” I’m thinking “senior White House official” must be a pretty cool […]

If Obama’s Lost Louis Farrakhan …

“I warn my brother do you let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the world. . . . You can’t order [Qaddafi] to step down and get out. Who the hell do you think you are?” — Louis Farrakhan, Friday, […]

OPERATION ODYSSEY DAWN: U.S. Launches Attacks on Targets in Libya

The first Tomahawk cruise missiles hit about 3 p.m. ET today: Military strikes by the U.S. and its allies against targets in Libya Saturday have “severely disabled” Libyan leader’s Muammar al-Qaddafi’s air defenses, a U.S. official confirms to Fox News. . . . The Pentagon says 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from U.S. […]

Two Michigan Democrats Face Felony Charges in Fake ‘Tea Party’ Ballot Fraud

Not just a scam, but an inept scam: Two former leaders of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing a total of nine felonies for allegedly forging election paperwork to get fake Tea Party candidates on November’s ballot. . . . Former Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and former Democratic Operations Director Jason Bauer […]

Journalists or Clairvoyants?

On Friday, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Politico published one of those Smartest Guy in the Room analytical pieces that always annoy the crap out of me, and ought to annoy everyone else, too. It amounts to Vandehei and Allen playing GOP strategists: The Republican Party is undergoing a messy but unmistakable 20-month transformation from fanatically […]

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